Eagle Creek Park April 23, 2014

Eagle Creek Park 

April 23, 2014

with our "L" family friends

What a pretty picture of Eagle Creek!

 "D" found an egg in the water---perhaps a goose egg?

All of the children wore their CAPES, and it was fun following around this wild group of hooded and  caped people...it took the time of which we live in out of the equation.

We saw deer tracks & raccoon tracks all over; but this picture really shows just how many deer have traveled through this spot!

I like this picture b/c you can just see how some trees are beginning to put forth LEAVES...leaves mean actual spring weather!

 Such beautiful spring flowers were all over the ground!

 Jack in the Pulpit---we saw a lot of them, and one that was variegated.

This is the first of those cool green metallic bugs that we have so many of---our first sighting of the year!

After our hike at Eagle Creek, the "L's" took us to see the woods and creek in their neighborhood.

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Indiana Museum of Art April 24, 2014

Indiana Museum of Art 

April 24, 2014

 

 The outside of the museum; and you can see the astronaut outfit on the sidewalk.  The NASA traveling exhibit was in the parking lot.  That was a nice extra!

 This is one of the two murals we saw---Fresco's of Jesus and the disciples--this image was of Palm Sunday; Jesus going to Jerusalem.

 This picture shows our little tour group; minus me---I'm taking the picture.  Here the tour guide is showing us how they made their own paint back in the day....from the materials in the bowls.

Can you believe our museum has a self-portrait of Rembrandt?!?!

 

 We also went to the Greek Ancient History section---what there was of it...small room!

 And a favorite American painter---

 

 Georgia O'Keefe

A few pictures from the NASA exhibit:

We got to touch a real rock from the MOON!

 The grounds had the most gorgeous tulips and bulbs blooming!

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Sonlight Core F Week 24 April 21-26th, 2014

Sonlight Core F 

Week 24 

April 21-26th, 2014

What a week!  Friday was our only day home all day!  Giz (my husbands mother) had a heart by-pass surgery; actually she had FIVE by-passes, on Monday.  Dh and Dd went and spent the day at the hospital to support her.  I stayed home with our dog.  

Tuesday we had our LAST Swim & Gym class at Plainfield Parks and Rec. building.  They played an awful game of "Dodge Ball"; and I think I grew 20 new gray hairs as a result...ugh!  But, Dd said she had a good time, and she didn't get hurt--though the older boys were WAY too rough with the younger kids.  Swimming went fine, and I think they had extra time to play in the pool after the lessons.  We also went to the library.

Here are a few of the 'flags' Dd made for her birthday party for the Capture The Flag game.

Wednesday we went to Eagle Creek Park again, and I successfully borrowed three "L" children to go with us.  They took us to a new trail than the last time, and we had a great time.  I spotted a Gray Tree Frog and had Dd capture it.  We kept it as a pet for two days before Dd decided it was time to free it.  I was willing to buy frog food at the local pet store, but Dd really wanted it free.  When we took them back to their house they invited us to see all the trails and spots they have in their woods in their neighborhood.  

Thursday we went to the Indiana Museum of Art--(IMA).  That is one place that I really wish I took my Dd to more often!  We had a tour guide take us to see a few paintings and murals from Early European paintings.  It wasn't a great tour, but we looked at art that I might now look at myself, so that part is good.  We had our group; which consisted of the grand total of FOUR, and one tour guide.  So it was a very personalized tour.

Friday Dd and I spent the whole day at home!  We did our lessons at home around our activities each day, but not as long as we normally go.

This was really a week for activities and field trips; but we still made some progress with our lessons.  We are 'in the Middle East' for our Core F lessons.  So our books and reading material was all based from there.

Bible: Veritas Press Judges Through Kings
I am a little confused about this section.  Our "Card 50" had ten lessons to do for our Greenleaf book; but then when we looked at the cards 50-55, it has sections that were assigned to do on the Card 50.  So, I'm not sure if we are doing it like they wanted; but we are getting it all done.  I saw card 53 was to read "Psalms", but I don't know if they want us to read ALL the Psalms?  It wasn't listed on the Card 50?  So, we have done Cards 50-55 minus the section on Psalms.  I guess we will read the Psalms after we finish 2 Samuel.

Card 50:done

Davidic Kingdom 

1 & 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles 

2 Samuel 18-21 read with the bible and bible commentary

The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament:

Lessons 113-114

Card 51:The Conquest of Jerusalem:done

Card 52:The Ark Enthroned in Jerusalem:done

Card 53:(*not done)David Writes Many Psalms

Card 54: David and Bathsheba:done

Card 55:David and Absalom:done

The Greenleaf Guide To Old Testament History by Rob G. Shearer and Cyndy A. Shearer

Believer's Bible Commentary   [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover] by W.(Author) ; MacDonald,

Artist of the Week:
Matisse
we read these following three books: 

Matisse (Famous Artists) by Antony Mason

Famous Artists: Matisse by Antony Mason

Weekend with Matisse by Rodari

A Weekend with Matisse by Florian Rodari

Henri Matisse (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Getting to know the Worlds Greatest Artists:Henri Matisse by Mike Venezia

Meet the Great Composers: Book 2 (Learning Link) by Maurice Hinson

Composer of the Week:
Sergi Prokofiev
Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2

Dd liked Prokofiev!

Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright

Science: Apologia
Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day
pg. 145-148

 

Zeta Decimals and Percents Instruction Manual Math-U-See by Steve Demme

Math: Math U See
Zeta: 26 A-E
Skip Counting Family-7's

 

Foreign Language: Rosetta Stone: French
one time, 30 minutes 
(it's a start!)



Language Arts:

All About Spelling Level 6-Teacher and Material Packet (All About Spelling: The Multisensory Program for Spelling...

All About Spelling 6: 
Step 6 passed

Fix-It! : Grammar and Editing Made Easy with Classics by Pamela White

IEW: Fix-It: Frog Prince
Week 5


SL Language Arts from Core F:
Week 14-first page done

The Grammar Ace: Instructor's Manual by Duane Bolin and Dave Lilly

The Grammar Ace
Lesson 25: Narrative Paragraphs

The Creative Writer, Level Two: Essential Ingredients by Boris Fishman

The Creative Writer
Wk 1 completed and the writing exercise completed.

Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills : Grade 7 by Wanda C. Phillips

Daily Grams 7
pg.'s: 65-69

Jessica's Journey Dramatic Audio by Hesba Stretton and John Rhys-Davies

Audio:
Jessica's Journey: completed
This was a wonderful audio, but I want to make sure to mention that during the first disc, there was one scene where the main character, Jessica, had an altercation with her drunken, violent mother.  It sounded like the mother hit her daughter, and that was a pretty intense moment for a minute.  I know some people would not like that moment; but in the end the mother comes around and becomes a much, much better person.  The mother changes from being so hurtful to loving.

Our Core F books:

The Arabs In The Golden Age (Peoples of the Past) by Mokhtar Moktefi and Veronique Ageorges

Arab in the Golden Age
pg. 1-17

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
ended the week on pg. 172

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window by YWAM Publishing,

100 Gateway Cities
Kuwait, Beirut, and Cairo
we have sections to read from this book for each area of the world we are studying, so it will go on throughout the whole core.



Readers:

The Hobbit by Tolkien

1) The Hobbit by Tolkien: in process

Trouble Is My Beeswax: A Chet Gecko Mystery by Bruce Hale

2)Chet Gecko-Trouble is my Beeswax: completed

Murder, My Tweet: A Chet Gecko Mystery by Bruce Hale

3)Chet Gecko-Murder My Tweet: completed

Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume by Jeff Smith

4)Bone (graphic books---she has a lot of these):completed

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SL Core F Week 23 April 14-18, 2014

Core F 

Week 23 

April 14-18, 2014

Dd made this planted last year for an Easter craft, and brought it back out and did it again this year.

Hello Bluebird!  This bluebird is on our roof!  This spring has been great for NEW birds coming to our backyard!!!!  So exciting!  Our backyard was just mud when we moved in; and I had to lay the sod; then slowly plant a few trees and bushes each year.  The birds were not use to coming to our yard, but over the years I've been able to keep (and improve) a bird habitat for them to lure them into my life!  It took 6-7 years to get the Red-Winged Blackbirds to come in; now this year we have Cardinals, Bluebirds, and most recently Barn Swallows sitting on our fence!  How cool, huh?!

This was a better scholastic week for us, and we actually got a few more electives done.  For our activities this week:  Monday we had Knitting Club; which was a lot of fun.  They had a birthday cake for Dd, and 2 others!  They lit candles and sang for them.  It was really nice.  Tuesday, we had our next to last class of "Swim & Gym".  We went to the library twice this week as well!  Dd rec'd 2 kites and had a great time going out to our back field (not "our" field actually, but a farmers field that hasn't been planted yet) to fly the kites.  She did this a lot! and really had a blast!

Flying the Kite pictures:

Our lessons:

Bible: 

Veritas Press: Joshua Through Genesis

Card 50

Davidic Kingdom 

1 & 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles 

Mon: 2 Samuel 13 read with bible and then bible commentary

Journey Through the Bible (JTTB): 126 & 127

The Greenleaf Guide to the Old Testament (Greenleaf): Lesson 110

The Victor Journey through the Bible by V. Gilbert Beers

The Greenleaf Guide To Old Testament History by Rob G. Shearer and Cyndy A. Shearer

Believer's Bible Commentary   [BELIEVERS BIBLE COMMENTARY -SS] [Hardcover] by W.(Author) ; MacDonald,

Wed: 2 Samuel 14 read with bible and bible commentary

Thur: 2 Samuel 15 & 16 read with bible & commentary

Psalm 3

Greenleaf: Lesson 111 & 112

Fri: 2 Samuel 17 read with bible & commentary
Greenleaf: 1/2 of lesson 113 (ch. 17 questions)
JTTB: 128 & 129







Snow- maybe our last???


 It Snowed this week!  But, I got our first HUMMINGBIRD feeder out!  Dh planted part of our garden on 4-19-14!  Earliest yet!


 Artist of the Week:

Roy Lichtenstein - The Artist at Work by Lou Ann Walker

Roy Lichtenstein
The Artist at Work by Lou Ann Walker



 

 Our hawk is still coming by often!



Composer of the Week:
Igor Stravinsky

Meet the Great Composers: Book 2 (Learning Link) by Maurice Hinson

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2




 

Language Arts:

Fix-It! : Grammar and Editing Made Easy with Classics by Pamela White

IEW's Fix-It: Frog Prince:Week 4

The Grammar Ace: Student Workbook by Duane Bolin and Dave Lilly

The Grammar Ace: Lesson 24

The Creative Writer, Level Two: Essential Ingredients by Boris Fishman (Sep 20, 2012)

The Creative Writer: pg. 1-6

All About Spelling Level 6-Teacher and Material Packet (All About Spelling: The Multisensory Program for Spelling...

All About Spelling 6: Step 5 passed

SL LA with Core F: Expository Writing: Wk 13

Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills : Grade 7 by Wanda C. Phillips

Daily Grams 7: 60-64

Writing Thank You Cards= wrote 6 cards & mailed

Math-U-See : Zeta Student Kit / Decimals and Percents by Miriam Homer

Math: 
Math U See: Zeta: 25 A-F



Swim & Gym Pictures

Jessica's Journey Dramatic Audio by Hesba Stretton and John Rhys-Davies (2013)

Audio:
Lamplighter's "Jessica's Journey" (in process) 
**Warning: There is a scene in the first 30 minutes of the first disc that might be disturbing for some listeners.  The mother of the main character- Jessica, has a 'fit', and it sounds like she hits the daughter.  So far, that is the only part of the story that I would fear could be difficult for some sensitive listeners.  It is a very quick scene, but I think the author is trying to establish what a very bad mother our main character, Jessica, has.

Hesba Stretton, under the influence of her mentor Charles Dickens, exposed this darkness through her stories. Soon to become one of the most popular writers of the 19th century, she won widespread fame for her book Jessica's First Prayer. Before long it had sold at least a million and a half copies, outselling Alice in Wonderland by "nearly ten times as many"! Today, we bring Hesba Stretton's story to life as a world-class audio drama, Jessica's Journey. As a web of characters become entangled with the knowledge of their past sins, a minister, a miser, and an unfit mother each encounter a miraculous redemption through their connection with the little Jessica-and her answer to prayer.




 
Movie:

National Geographic Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring 2002

Core F Stuff:

Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor folktale library) by Joanna Cole

Best Loved Folktales of the World (continues...)

Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window by YWAM Publishing, C. Peter Wagner, Stephen Peters and Mark Wilson

100 Gateway Cities: Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Manama read plus we brought out of huge Atlas book and looked up each city.



Reader's:

The Hobbit by Tolkien

The Hobbit by Tolkien (in-process)

Chet Gecko fun mystery book
(in-process)

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

(completed)

Read Aloud:

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Habibi (in-process)

Shadow Spinner (A Jean Karl Book) by Susan Fletcher

Shadow Spinner (completed) Great Book!  I really, really liked this book!!!! Amazone says:

From Kirkus Reviews

A young girl, Marjan, rescues the fabled Shahrazad from the Sultan's wrath in this exciting and thought-provoking novel from Fletcher (Flight of the Dragon Kyn, 1993, etc.). With her crippled foot, Marjan never expects to be dragged off to the palace, but that is what happens after a chance meeting with Shahrazadthe storyteller who wins her life each night with cliffhanging stories for the sultan, and who obtains a story from Marjan. Heartbroken at leaving her Aunt Chava and her Uncle Eli, Marjan confronts cruelty within the palace's lush interior, where wives and concubines can be executed at the sultan's whim, and where the Khatun, the sultan's mother, spies on everyone. Dispatched by Shahrazad to find more stories, Marjan sneaks out into the marketplace, where she eventually finds an old storyteller who tells her the end of a story of which the sultan has become fond. Beaten and imprisoned by the Khatun, Marjan escapes the palace, only to return and tell the sultan an allegory that enables him to realize his love for Shahrazad, and to spare her life. Despite the licenses Fletcher takes with the story of Shahrazad, the novel may entice readers into the pages of Richard Burton's far richer work; they will appreciate the power of storytellingthat it may expand the soul of even the most hardened listener.



Science:

Exploring Creation with Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day (Young Explorer Series) (Young Explorer... by Jeannie Fulbright

Swimming Creatures (Apologia)
Pg's 128-145
Crabs, Shrimp, Barnacles, Mollusks, Bivalves, and Clams!




Busy Hands: I'll just show some pictures of it:


Crochet projects:






 

Duct Tape Bag - made out of a cereal box actually!








Red Duct Tape Wallet






Black Duct Tape Wallet







Duct Tape Bracelet:

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